have put one over on them for a long time. they only want their energy at election time. they want nothing to do with having abortion banned and all these other things. they've just been using them and now the gig is up. >> i think that's a fantastic is summary of it and karl rove is the embodiment of it to the grassroot tea party types. that's why i think he's done. he himself has become a symbol. he can't be the architect anymore. and they need a new leader. they need what ronald reagan did a generation ago and they don't have it right now. they don't have it right now. >> i want to go back to the democrats on this because it seems to me that it could be, that because they have a wider range of interests and issues, environment, the drones question, guantanamo, banking reform, there are people who object to obama policy in every one of those categories but who completely agree with obama policy on abortion rights, on a very long list of other issues and it seems that they concentrate on what they agree on. >> right. >> when it comes time for election strategy. >> and i think thin

it. the president did get some big improvements in energy investments and sensors to help detect and repair problems before the lights go out. as well as some grid modernizations. we did not get the brain, and during last night's super bowl, super bowl xli, we didn't get the commercials for the smart grid, we got this. 34 minutes of darkness in the most watched television event in u.s. history. it was not all bad. when the lights went out, twitter lit up. a whole lot of snark, the audience sports net tweeted, many without power in new orleans, please help, every donation counts. one tweeted in hind sight maybe installing the clapper was a bad idea. this tweet, i'm going to speak into a mug because my bain is not very good. and the parody account, super dome lighting crew tweeted what people don't talk about is how the lights were on for the entire first half. never get that credit. we don't know yet the exact cause of last night, power outage or if it could have been stopped by a smart grid, maybe it could not have. but blackouts in general and big ones in particular are more com

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